Executive Summary
While most of the country was distracted last week, the Clinton Global Initiative held its annual meeting in New York on September 22nd and 23rd, surrounded by dozens of side meetings on climate and the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations. We spent the weekend reading their own published materials, and the message was impossible to miss: the people in those rooms do not think the will of American voters is going to get in their way.
The Initiative announced 60 new commitments, said it has $630 million in commitments fully funded and implemented, and said another $212 million is secured going into 2026. The money is not abstract. On the show we walked through grants flowing to the same organizations that built the censorship and election-litigation machine of the last decade: Democracy Forward, Protect Democracy, the Knight Foundation, and an $18 million "Humanity AI" fund administered through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
The attendee list read like a reunion of the people who have never been held to account: John Podesta, Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, Samantha Power, Alex Soros and more. Meanwhile, Bloomberg Philanthropies is pushing "Local 2030" and the Urban 20 network straight into American city halls, and the National Council for the Social Studies has organized its framework around the Sustainable Development Goals since 2013.
This is not a story about one party or one election. It is about a supranational network that is better funded than many nation states, and about whether We the People are paying attention before the midterms.
Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
What Happened at the Clinton Global Initiative This Year
The annual meeting's official topics were AI, health, development finance, leadership, litigation, philanthropy and humanitarian systems. Read that list again. Litigation. AI. Those are not charity categories. Those are levers of control.
The Initiative announced 60 new commitments. It reported $630 million in commitments fully funded and implemented, with another $212 million secured going into 2026. And this did not happen in isolation. Around the same week, New York hosted dozens of meetings tied to climate and Agenda 2030 at the United Nations.
What struck us most was the tone. They talked about this country, and about the tens of millions of Americans who voted for change, as a problem to be managed. They did not sound like people worried about accountability. They sounded like people who believe the outcome has already been decided.
Do they really think the midterms are already theirs? Why would they be so confident?
Follow the Money: Where the Commitments Go
Here is what the published commitments showed, as we walked through it on the show.
Democracy Forward. About $65 million. This is the litigation shop whose board, as we discussed, includes Marc Elias, John Podesta, Ron Klain and Skye Perryman. Litigation is the business model.
Protect Democracy and the Democracy Fund. About $1.3 million.
The Knight Foundation. About $5 million in grants framed as support for "independent journalists." Knight was part of the funding network around the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, which surfaced in the weaponization hearings over the censorship of Americans online.
Craig Newmark. About $1 million. Omidyar's election integrity work. About $68,000.
Humanity AI. $18 million, with $8 million in initial grants and $10 million held for an open call, administered through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Recipients include AI Now, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Partnership on AI, and an "AI civics" effort led by Data & Society.
Who chose these people to decide how artificial intelligence will treat us? Nobody we voted for.
The same week, we saw European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledge more than $800 million on behalf of Europe at a Global Citizen event, calling everyone in the room "global citizens." That phrase is not an accident. It is the goal.
The Same Faces, Every Time
The attendee list is the part every American should read.
John Podesta, who sat on the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and later served as the administration's climate lead. Norm Eisen, Marc Elias and Skye Perryman, the core of the lawfare network. Samantha Power, former UN ambassador and USAID administrator. Patrick Gaspard, formerly of the Open Society Foundations and the Center for American Progress. Alex Soros, board chair of the Open Society Foundations. Heather Gerken, president of the Ford Foundation. Ian Bremmer. Paul Polman, a UN Global Compact and corporate sustainability architect. Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager.
These are not new players. They are the same people who have moved between foundations, think tanks, universities and government for twenty years. A grant here. A board seat there. A government post. Then back to the foundation.
We call this documentary history because it is written down. Their own bios tell the story.
Agenda 2030 Is Coming to Your City Hall
If you remember one thing from this episode, make it this.
Bloomberg Philanthropies is a major funder of Local 2030 and the Urban 20. Local 2030 describes itself as the UN system-wide platform for localizing the Sustainable Development Goals. The Urban 20 brings major G20 cities together to hand recommendations directly into the G20 process. Los Angeles hosted a U20 gathering, and Los Angeles and New York were named lead cities for the 2026 agenda.
The stated objective is to take global commitments and embed them in local plans, budgets, metrics and administrative practice. The model favors "multi-stakeholder governance," the public-private partnership language of the World Economic Forum, over policy that moves through national legislation and elections.
Read what that means. Not through Congress. Not through your vote. Through your mayor's office, your county planning board, your school district.
Development finance data maps Bloomberg Family Foundation giving directly to the SDGs. As we read it on the show: about $80.5 million to civil society organizations, $40 million to universities and think tanks, $30 million to multilateral systems, and roughly 82% channeled through United Nations organizations and the World Bank. Those bodies are covered by the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945, which puts them largely beyond the reach of American audits and courts.
This is infiltration instead of invasion. Nobody marches in. The goals are simply written into the paperwork.
Your Children's Classroom Is Part of the Plan
Sustainable Development Goal 4 calls for "global citizenship" and sustainable development education across policy, curricula, teacher education and assessment. UNESCO drives it.
Here at home, the National Council for the Social Studies has organized its framework since 2013 around inquiry and "informed action," work that sits squarely inside the SDG education model. Teacher training, grant deliverables, district adoption, classroom materials. Brick by brick.
Then came the 1619 Project, a campaign to recast America's founding around 1619 instead of 1776, adopted into school curricula across the country. Ten years later, even its author has written about her own daughter's frustration with the schools she chose to champion. Maud Maron's Wall Street Journal opinion piece on the price of that experiment is worth your time.
Yuri Bezmenov warned that one generation of demoralizing education would be enough to turn a country against its own founding. Is that what we are watching?
Meanwhile, Accountability Is Still Missing
There was some good news. Tom Homan reported that 157,000 formerly missing unaccompanied children have been located, and that the search continues for the rest. Sadly, 20 children were found dead. Many were forced into labor or sex trafficking. That is the human cost of an open border.
The Office of Management and Budget also put forward a proposed rescission package approaching $1 billion, citing roughly $567 million in HHS services for non-citizens and NGO grants with no explanation attached. House Judiciary released Arctic Frost interviews and depositions on September 23rd. CISA published a voluntary plan for securing the next 250 years of elections.
And yet, no indictments. No arrests at the top. The referrals from Chuck Grassley, Rand Paul, James Comer, Ron Johnson, Chip Roy and Barry Loudermilk keep stacking up.
At the same time, Senate Democrats launched an "Election Protection Task Force" with Marc Elias, Eric Holder, Vanita Gupta, Norm Eisen and Skye Perryman, and Elias says his firm is litigating 85 voting and election cases in 41 states. One side is organized. Is ours?
We the People Are the Answer
We know how heavy this feels. It was a heavy weekend to read through. But do not let anyone tell you that your voice and your vote do not matter. The people at the Clinton Global Initiative are counting on exactly that. Every "don't bother voting" post is a gift to them.
This is not about any one politician. It is about individual liberty, rights that come from God and not government, and a sovereign nation with secure borders that answers to its own citizens. Recovery starts when we stop fighting each other and start paying attention to who is actually writing the rules.
Ready to work a Step? Here are three things you can do this week:
- Find out whether your city or county is part of C40, Local 2030, the Urban 20 or a Bloomberg mayors' program. Ask about it at the next public meeting.
- Ask your school district which social studies framework it uses and where its teacher training comes from.
- Call your representatives and ask them to support rescinding immunity under the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945 and to audit the NGOs receiving federal money.
Key Takeaways
- The Clinton Global Initiative announced 60 new commitments, $630 million fully funded and $212 million more secured for 2026.
- About $65 million is going to Democracy Forward, a litigation group tied to the same lawfare network we have tracked for years.
- An $18 million "Humanity AI" fund run through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors will shape who gets a say over AI.
- Bloomberg-funded Local 2030 and Urban 20 are pushing Agenda 2030 into American city budgets, bypassing Congress.
- Roughly 82% of Bloomberg's SDG giving flows through UN bodies and the World Bank, shielded by the 1945 immunities law.
- The National Council for the Social Studies has organized around the SDG framework since 2013.
- The midterms matter. The people who wrote this agenda are counting on you to stay home.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Clinton Global Initiative just a charity?
It calls itself one, but its own 2026 topics included litigation, AI and development finance. When the grants go to election lawyers and AI policy groups, it is fair to ask whether this is charity or political infrastructure. Read their commitments yourself and decide.
What is Local 2030 and why should I care?
It is the UN platform for localizing the Sustainable Development Goals, and Bloomberg Philanthropies helps fund it. Its goal is to write global targets into local budgets and administrative rules. That means policy that never passes through your vote.
Why can't anyone audit the UN or the World Bank?
The International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945 grants them broad immunity on U.S. soil. That is why we keep saying it should be rescinded. Money that flows through those bodies goes dark.
Does voting in the midterms actually matter?
Yes. The people in these rooms are organized, funded and already planning for November. Staying home is the one thing that guarantees their plan works.
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